can't install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 -- could not find display driver vm-display-X11

> I have been trying to install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 w/out success
>
> I was able to install it w/ Debian packages but the sound didn't work.
> At the advice of my colleague Luke Gorrie I tried installing it from the
> VM-Source tarball
> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/unix-linux/Squeak-3.9-8.src.tar.gz
>
> I used the documentation in /unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.pdf
>
> I ran the configure script and got an error that it couldn't find
> npsqueak libraries.
>
> I then tried ../config/configure --without-npsqueak
>
> it configured but this showed up in the config.log
>
> configure:26825: result: ******** disabling vm-display-X11
>
> I then did make and make install
>
> Predictably, I get this error when I try to open a squeak image
>
> $ squeak olenepal-demo.4.image
> could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
>   - check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/vm-display-X11.so exists, or
>   - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
>   - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> Please assist :)

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> Hi Bryan,
>
>
>
> Bryan Berry wrote:
> > I have been trying to install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 w/out success
> >
> > I was able to install it w/ Debian packages but the sound didn't work.
> > At the advice of my colleague Luke Gorrie I tried installing it from the
> > VM-Source tarball
> > http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/unix-linux/Squeak-3.9-8.src.tar.gz
> >
> > I used the documentation in /unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.pdf
> >
> > I ran the configure script and got an error that it couldn't find
> > npsqueak libraries.
> >
> > I then tried ../config/configure --without-npsqueak
> >
> > it configured but this showed up in the config.log
> >
> > configure:26825: result: ******** disabling vm-display-X11
> >
> > I then did make and make install
> >
> > Predictably, I get this error when I try to open a squeak image
> >
> > $ squeak olenepal-demo.4.image
> > could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
> >   - check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/vm-display-X11.so exists, or
> >   - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
> >   - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> >
> > Please assist :)
>
>
>
> When I have had this problem in the past, I solved copying npbsqueak.so
> from other places to the proper location... It's a guess but I think
> you can have --without-npsqueak and *at the same time* graphical
> display. See that you get "configure:26825: result: ******** disabling
> vm-display-X11" as a result of your compilation and also a complain
> about the inhability to find the "vm-display-X11" driver.
>
> We have the installation procedure documented (in Spanish) here:
>
> http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Instalacion#head-1575ffc64426e6e4adec2c3d873b422ef2f43c62
>
>
> Notice the root permissions to run the install script, for better
> results. My test machine for building that doc was pretty similar to
> yours (with an older Ubuntu, but this is not a big deal)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
> [...]
> >
> > Help! Part of my job is to teach people how to use Squeak so our
> > development team (the real programmers) can focus full-time on
> > developing learning activities w/ Squeak. I need to get up to speed on
> > Squeak quickly.  Thanks
> >
>
> I hope this help. What learning activities and experiences are you and
> your team working on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
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> Offray,
>
>
> Thanks for your help. I tried the instructions on your website but it
> still didn't work. I got a lot of errors during the configure that it
> couldn't find a great number of header files
>
> I have a Centrino Duo processor on my laptop and I am running Ubuntu
> 7.10
>
> I finally did get it to work by installing the
>
> Squeak-3.9-8.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz tarball from squeak.org
>
> I had tried this earlier and it had installed successfully but the sound
> didn't work. It was extremely frustrating because I was showing our
> activities to some education groups yesterday and I could show off our
> cool audio features.
>
> Perhaps the sound didn't work because I did not have the
> build-essentials package, the alsaplayer-common or alsaplayer-alsa
> packages installed. Maybe this should have been obvious to me but I am
> less than a Linux guru.
>
> OLE Nepal is creating activities for the entire math and English
> curriculum for grades 2 and 6. We're trying to make the activities cool
> enough that kids learn stuff but familiar to the teachers so that they
> aren't intimidated. We have 2 teachers that guide our activity
> development and they are quite awesome. Check out our current activities
> here: http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/73
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:48 -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas wrote:
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>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Berry wrote:
>> > I have been trying to install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 w/out success
>> >
>> > I was able to install it w/ Debian packages but the sound didn't work.
>> > At the advice of my colleague Luke Gorrie I tried installing it from
>> the
>> > VM-Source tarball
>> > http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/unix-linux/Squeak-3.9-8.src.tar.gz
>> >
>> > I used the documentation in /unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.pdf
>> >
>> > I ran the configure script and got an error that it couldn't find
>> > npsqueak libraries.
>> >
>> > I then tried ../config/configure --without-npsqueak
>> >
>> > it configured but this showed up in the config.log
>> >
>> > configure:26825: result: ******** disabling vm-display-X11
>> >
>> > I then did make and make install
>> >
>> > Predictably, I get this error when I try to open a squeak image
>> >
>> > $ squeak olenepal-demo.4.image
>> > could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
>> >   - check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/vm-display-X11.so exists,
>> or
>> >   - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
>> >   - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
>> > Aborted (core dumped)
>> >
>> > Please assist :)
>>
>>
>>
>> When I have had this problem in the past, I solved copying npbsqueak.so
>> from other places to the proper location... It's a guess but I think
>> you can have --without-npsqueak and *at the same time* graphical
>> display. See that you get "configure:26825: result: ******** disabling
>> vm-display-X11" as a result of your compilation and also a complain
>> about the inhability to find the "vm-display-X11" driver.
>>
>> We have the installation procedure documented (in Spanish) here:
>>
>> http://www.el-directorio.org/Squeak/Instalacion#head-1575ffc64426e6e4adec2c3d873b422ef2f43c62
>>
>>
>> Notice the root permissions to run the install script, for better
>> results. My test machine for building that doc was pretty similar to
>> yours (with an older Ubuntu, but this is not a big deal)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> >
>> > Help! Part of my job is to teach people how to use Squeak so our
>> > development team (the real programmers) can focus full-time on
>> > developing learning activities w/ Squeak. I need to get up to speed on
>> > Squeak quickly.  Thanks
>> >
>>
>> I hope this help. What learning activities and experiences are you and
>> your team working on?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
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